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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: q: being notified of new mail
Message-ID: <6618@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 01:33:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 01:33:46 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <4350001@wdl1.UUCP> garyo@wdl1.UUCP (gary ogasawara) writes:
>What do I have to do so that when new mail arrives, I am interrupted
>and a message is displayed on my window?

Short of running "sysmon" on your Blit/DMD/MTG, the best solution is
probably to use the MAIL or MAILPATH features of the Bourne shell,
if your version supports it.  Some systems also provide a "biff"
utility, or "fido", or some other such program that runs in the
background and can be instructed to blather on your terminal when
your mailbox changes, if you really want that (it messes up your
display if you're text-editing).  Look in your manual to see if
your system supports any of these methods; it will give further
details.